What is the nature of an accused's confession and what is the substance of that confession?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Pearce (M.L.), 2014 MBCA 70 (CanLII):
As explained in Kelsey (at p. 226) and Rustad v. The Queen, 1965 CanLII 53 (SCC), [1965] S.C.R. 555 at 561-63, the nature of the accused’s narrative of their commission of the crime in the confession is important to its probative value and the substance of an accused’s claim of false confession.
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